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Tomato pasta!

I second the pasta with tomato sauce! Also cheese-filled tortellinis with butter & parmesan.

Roast chicken, spinach ravioli from costco, pasta with tomato sauce, cheeseburgers

@BabyBoecksMom: what do you do if they don't eat anything? Do they ask for a snack later?

@BabyBoecksMom: this is what we do too. We've had some tantrums, but I don't want to make two meals and special food for her. We've done this from the start and it's gone well so far. But I do tend to make our meals things she'll most likely eat. I don't experiment much because 1. No time and 2. My DH is picky. Ugh. Oh well. I make the same things over and over and choose something interesting when we go out.

To answer the original question, she'll always eat mac and cheese, sweet potato and regular fries, carrots, and yogurt.

Pasta & tomato sauce (really any type of pasta), ham and cheese wrap, scrambled eggs

Scrambled eggs & toast with yoghurt & fruit. We have this a shameful amount.

Mac and cheese from a box. She will eat more than half a box of it before I cut her off. That's her favorite. She will also always eat yogurt and kashi cereal. Frozen broccoli in cheese sauce (as in, the high preservative sauce it's frozen with). Tortellini dipped in tomato a sauce (not mixed! She has to dip it herself!).

Frozen nuggets she will just about always eat, homemade chicken nuggets are hit or miss.

And cheese, and fruit.

@BabyBoecksMom: we do that too!

Tortellini or Annie's.

Pasta with meat sauce, Annie's shell pasta, fish tofu stir fry, fish balls, noodle soup, and probably mushroom pizza, sahlens hot dogs.

Almost anything with ketchup. All the kid staples: Mac and cheese, hot dogs, chicken nuggets, pizza, PB&J, most pasta, any fruit, cheese etc. we don't cater to him for dinner though. Sometimes he eats a lot of dinner and other times he doesn't like it so he doesn't eat much. He's never complained later of being hungry though. I refuse to fight over food so I never force him to eat any of it.

They would eat Annie's mac and cheese every day if they could!

korean soup always. seaweed soup and chicken porridge (both recipes on hellobee). it goes down more easily than food you have to chew since it's soup, and it's hearty since it has meat, veggies, and rice!

other than that their favorite foods are pickles and hot dogs. even pizza which they usually love, sometimes they don't touch.

Charlie also loves yogurt and Olive loves tofu.

Spaghetti and meatballs. I make a big batch of emails every month or two...I'm really picky about them, so I like to make and freeze my own (ground turkey, spicy ground pork, spinach...). Plus garlic bread, peas or peas/carrots, and fresh fruit.

Fruit.

He's been sick and picky and that's about the only thing I know he will eat for sure. OH and goldfish crackers. And the free cookies at the grocery store.

Pasta, pretty much any kind.

I also don't make separate meals for my LOs, so if they don't eat it, they don't get anything else.

@BabyTsMom: I sort of always did it because I did semi baby led weaning. I tried to make things she could eat if I cut it up really really tiny when she was first starting solids (after we made it past trying foods one-by-one). So I'd make tacos with beans and I'd give her tiny pieces of meat and beans with a pouch on the side and soft tortilla and guacamole. With new meals, I try to make something she'll definitely love and try not to worry about her not eating the other things. I figure on a week to week basis, she eats good so one meal that she's not crazy about won't hurt. But if she asks me for more food after dinner, I just offer her what we had for dinner. And she always gets a cup of milk before bed.

Eta: my dd is 21 months and so far, we've only had a couple tantrums about her asking for more food after dinner. But I usually make dinners that she'll eat. Spaghetti, tacos, casseroles, rice/chicken veggie, burgers/fries. We aren't too adventurous, lol.

@BabyTsMom: we started it about 14 months for both kids. If they signed "all done" and didn't eat much, we would explain that if they were hungry later, they would only be able to eat their leftovers. We still would give a cup of milk at first if they completely refused and broke down, but they learned quickly.

They understand a lot more than you would think at that age!